Gnucash 3.0 will not go beyond splash screen

[David Carlson]

Well, it's not supposed to be that slow.  The upgrades in Release 3.0 are
fairly major and it was not expected to run so slow.  Furure releases will
be much better.

David C

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Bill Starrs <wjstarrsiii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the info,
>
> yes, it finally opened up.  Some kind of message indicating that the
> database is being converted would be nice to consider in the future.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:01:37PM -0500, David Carlson wrote:
>
>> If you have a very large database check recent bug reports.  I think that
>> I
>> saw one where the first time it takes several hours to update the database
>> to work with release 3.0.  Two hours may not be enough time.
>>
>> David C
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Bill Starrs <wjstarrsiii at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I upgraded to 3.0 yesterday on Archlinux.  I have been using MariaDB for
>>> storage for a few years.
>>>
>>> I have tried a few times to launch the new GnuCash.  It finds
>>> Finance:Quote, prompts me for the database user and password, then just
>>> hangs at the splash screen.
>>>
>>> Launching from the terminal I get no messages or output of any kind,
>>> waited about 2 hours before killing the process last time.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bill Starrs
>>>
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